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Classification of Emergency Department Syndromic Data for Seasonal Influenza Surveillance
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We evaluated several classifications of emergency department (ED) syndromic data to ascertain best syndrome classifications for ILI. -
Expert Meeting on Privacy, Confidentiality, and Other Legal and Ethical Issues in Syndromic Surveillance
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For syndromic and related public health surveillance systems to be effective, state and local health departments and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) need access to a variety of types of health data. Since the development and… read more -
Evaluating a standard influenza-like illness syndrome definition across multiple sites in the distribute project: The ‘ILI-s’ Pilot
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The Distribute project began in 2006 as a distributed, syndromic surveillance demonstration project that networked state and local health departments to share aggregate emergency department-based influenza-like illness (ILI) syndrome… read more -
Syndromic Surveillance for Influenza in Washington State: A Local and Regional Perspective
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We explored the utility of tracking emergency department (ED) visits for febrile illness as a proxy for influenza surveillance, from both a local and a regional perspective. -
Systematic Comparison of Algorithms Used in Syndromic Surveillance
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Varied approaches have been used by syndromic surveillance systems for aberration detection. However, the performance of these methods has been evaluated only across a small range of epidemic characteristics. Objective… read more -
Utility of Syndromic Surveillance for Investigating Morbidity Resulting from a Severe Weather Event
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On 12/14/06, a windstorm in western Washington caused 4 million residents to lose power; within 24 hours, a surge in patients presented to emergency departments (EDs) with carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. As previously described, records of… read more -
What is the Value of a Positive Syndromic Surveillance Signal?
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One criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of a surveillance system is the system’s positive predictive value. To our knowledge few studies have described the positive predictive value of syndromic surveillance signals… read more -
An information visualization approach to improving data quality
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The Public Health - Seattle & King County syndromic surveillance system has been collecting emergency department (ED) data since 1999. These data include hospital name, age, sex, zip code, chief complaint, diagnoses (when available), disposition… read more